Master Itinerary

Ok, so here's the deal. Marina and I are leaving in a little over a week (the night of the 17th) and after that our input on this blog should be pretty minimal if anything at all. So, I'm going to try to get everything all squared away by then and if y'all (thank you jenna) have any questions, issues, etc. please bring them up by then! I will have my cell phone, so you can text me (calling with it would be way expensive, but you can text me to tell me to call you if you need to), but that's kind of expensive too and besides I'd rather not have to deal with any of this ones I'm gone, so try not to. Anyway, I'm going to post what is almost the finished itinerary and it will probably (hopefully) be the last one I post unless there are major problems with it. It doesn't include some info, but that's because i don't have that info compiled yet. I'll have it with me in Europe, but it's not on here because I don't figure you really need to know, for example, which train we need to take to get where. Anyway, here you go.


August 18th (Friday)
- 8:30 pm arrive in Shannon airport
- 8:30 - 9 get luggage together and hire a taxi
- 9 - 9:15 Take taxi
- 9:15 - 9:30 Check into Jamaica Inn
- 9:30 - 10:30 Unpack/get ready for bed
- 10:30 Go to bed
August 19th (Saturday)
- 7 - 8 Get ready
- 8 - 8:30 Check out
- 8:30 - 9 Get to Bunratty Castle
- 9 - 10:30 Explore Bunratty Castle
- 10:30 - 11 Get to Cliffs
- 11 - 1 Explore Cliffs of Moher
- 1 - 1:30 Get to Doolin
- 1:30 - 2 Take boat from Doolin to Inisheer
- 2 - 3 Explore Inisheer (this is just because it's the best way to get to Inishmor)
- 3 - 3:30 Take boat from Inisheer to Inishmor
- 3:30 - 4 Check in to Norrin Ui Ghoill or however you spell it)
- 4 - 8 Explore Inishmore (some of this stuff is of course flexible - also, for this island, we don't have a very set itinerary because we're just going to be biking around seeing whatever we want and we don't need one)
- 8 - 9 Eat
- 9 - 10:30 Get ready for bed, etc.
August 20th (Sunday)
- 8 Wake up
- 8 - 9 Get ready
- 9 - 9 Explore (we'll maybe try and find some sort of church to go to)
- 9 - 10 Get ready for bed
August 21st (Monday)
- 7:30 - 8:30 Get ready
- 8:30 - 9 Check out
- 9 - 10 Get to Doolin
- 10 - 10:30 Get to Burren
- 10:30 - 2 Burren
- 2 - 2:30 Get to Dungaire
- 2:30 - 4:30 Dungaire
- 4:30 - 5:30 Get to Galway airport
- 5:30 - 7:40 Check in and wait to get on plane
- 7:40 - 8:55 Fly to Edinburgh
- 8:55 - 9:30 Get luggage and find taxi
- 9:30 - 10 Get to hostel
- 10 - 10:30 Check in to Globetrotter Inn
- 10:30 - 11:30 Get ready for bed
August 22nd (Tuesday)
- 8:30 - 9 Take shuttle (they leave every hour on the half and take like 15 to 30 min i think)
- 9 - 9:30 Walk to Castle/Get lunch food from store
- 9:30 - 12 Edinburgh Castle
- 12 - 2 Sir Walter Scott Monument
- 2 - 4:30 Holyroodhouse/St. Arthur's Seat
- 4:30 - 7 St. Gile's Cathedral
- 7 - 8 Eat Dinner
- 8 - 8:30 Take shuttle back (they go back every hour on the hour)
- 8:30 - 9:30 Walk around beach
- 9:30 - 10:30 Get ready for bed
August 23rd (Wednesday)
- 8 - 9 Get ready
- 9 - 9:30 Check out
- 9:30 - 10 Take Shuttle to city
- 10 - 10:30 Take bus to airport
- 10:30 - 12:30 At the airport
- 12:30 - 3:30 Fly to Paris (can't find my flight itinerary, so do you know what the exact times for this are?)
- 3:30 - 4:30 Get to Hotel des Olympiades and check in
- 4:30 - 7 Sacre Coeur
- 7 - 9:45 Louvre
August 24th (Thursday)
- 9 - 12 Moulin Rouge (not exactly how this works or when it opens)
- 12 - 3:30 Musee D'Orsay
- 3:30 - 5 Walk down the Champs Elysees
- 5 - 6:30 Arc de Triomphe
August 25th (Friday)
- 10 - 11:30 Maison de Victor Hugo
- 11:30 - 1 Lunch
- 1 - 4 Conciergerie
- 4 - 7 Notre Dame (we'll be there when they sing their nightime whatever it's called)
- 7 - 9:45 Louvre again
August 26th (Saturday)
- 9 - 11 Catacombs (only open for like 2 hour periods according to website, but if open longer we have generous time at lunch that we can cut into)
- 11 - 12:30 Lunch at Jardin du Luxembourg (pretty garden/good for people watching)
- 12:30 - 3:30 Musee National August Rodin
- 3:30 to 5 Boat tour of the Seine (they leave every half hour and take an hour and a half)
- 5 - 7 Dinner somewhere (i say we eat out like once a week and not just like grab something but really eat)
- 7 - 9 Eiffel Tower (open til like midnight, so we've got plenty of time)
August 27th (Sunday)
- 9 - 12:30 Church (my mom's looking into this, but this day is way flexible so it doesn't matter when it's at)
- 12:30 - 2 Hotel Ritz
- 2 - 6 Louvre (if we're tired of the Louvre by now we can do something else)
August 28th (Monday)
- Versailles (don't have this totally planned yet, but all i really need to plan is train tickets because the rest is pretty self explanatory I'm guessing)
August 29th (Tuesday)
- 7 - 10:30 Travel from Paris to London (still need to look into train/chunnel/ferry tickets)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Get to Astor Victoria and check in etc.
- 11:30 - 2:30 Trafalgar Square
- 2:30 - 5 Parliament and Big Ben
- 5 -7 Boat tour
- 7 - 11 Watch Play (Trafalgar Square or Royal Albert Hall depending on whether we can get tickets for a play at Trafalgar Square earlier in the day)
August 30th (Wednesday)
- 10:45 - 12:15 Changing of the guard
- 12:15 - 2 Hyde Park
- 2 - 5:30 Westminster Abbey
- 5:30 - 9 National Gallery
August 31st (Thursday) (not sure about St. Paul's hours because the site said it closed at 4, but abbey was talking about be able to be there when they sing at that wasn't til at least 5, sooo, hence the two options)
- 9:30 - 10:30 Abbey Road
- 10:30 - 1:30 Buckingham Palace
- 1:30 - 4 Saint Paul's Cathedral
or
- 9:30 - 10:30 Abbey Road
- 10:30 - 1:30 Buckingham Palace
- 1:30 - 5 Covent Garden shopping/people watching/St. Paul's Church (not Cathedral)
- 5 - 8 St. Paul's Cathedral
September 1st (Friday)
- 9 - 12 Tower of London
- 12 - 2 Tower Bridge
- 2 - 5 Globe Play
- 5 - 7 Dinner on London Bridge
- 7 - 8 Jack the Ripper Tour (starts at 7, goes for like 40 min i think)
September 2nd (Saturday)
- 10 - 11:30 Dicken's House
- 11:30 - 1 British Museum
- 1 - 2:30 Highgate Cemetary Tour
- 2:30 - 5 British Library Tour
- 5 - 9 Play at either Trafalgar Square or Royal Albert Hall (whichever we didn't see before)
September 3rd (Sunday)
- Oxford (once again, still need to plan, but shouldn't be too hard and unless you guys want to give me input on this, i'll just have the itinerary when we get there because i don't feel the need to post it at this time)

Ok, so that's the plan. Please comment if you have something to say. Au revoir!